Hacks in the machineGuardian, UK - 3-2-04With new voting equipment in use today in California,
Georgia and Maryland for theSuperTuesday primaries, it now may be possible to hijack the
results with ...

I am going to vote right after
I post today's edition. Hopefully, my vote will be counted---I live in
Flori-dubya, after all.

Blasts Kill 143 at Iraq Shiite ShrinesLas Vegas Sun, NV - 3-2-04... attacks on Shiites, aimed at sparking a Sunni-Shiite
civilwar in order to ...Iraq's
Governing Council blamed the attacks on "terrorists" seeking to enflame ...

"Saddam Hussein was recently
visited by the Red Cross and he is in very good health and he is expected to
remain that way until we, of course, kill him." Jay Leno

Gas prices soar; many wonder whyThe Desert Sun, CA - 3-2-04... billion. Those profits are making it hard for some
local gas station
owners to see why prices are so high now. "This is beyond us. ...

"Here in California gas prices
have gone up to more than $2 a gallon. So not only didn’t we find any weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq…apparently we didn't find any oil there either. Didn't
we win the war? I thought that gas would be free now." —Jay Leno

A half century ago, on March 1, 1954, the United States conducted
its largest nuclear test. Code-named Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb detonated
on Bikini Atoll, producing an intense fireball followed by a 20-mile-high
mushroom cloud. The Bravo test is seen in this Department of Energy archival
photo.

Disturbing News

Former Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Monday he was forced to leave Haiti
against his will by the United States, a claim dismissed by senior Bush
administration officials as nonsense.

The flu season is
fading away, but experts warn that a far greater menace may be on the horizon:
The avian flu galloping across Asia poses "the most serious pandemic threat
since 1968," Keiji Fukuda said Monday at the International Conference on
Emerging Infectious Diseases.

President Bush
reshuffled his advisory council on cloning and related medical issues on Friday,
adding a prominent neurosurgeon known for his work on conjoined twins and two
conservatives who have spoken out strongly against cloning.

In an oversight
that could impact cases nationwide, the FBI hasn't routinely searched a special
computer space where agents store investigative documents to see whether those
materials should be sent to defense lawyers, Congress or special investigative
bodies like the Sept. 11 inquiry.

The Senate on
Tuesday was set to pass legislation giving the gun industry sweeping protections
from lawsuits as gun control advocates sought to add amendments extending the
1994 assault weapons ban and requiring background checks at gun shows.

A report from U.N.
weapons inspectors to be released today says they now believe there were no
weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to
two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document....

"George W. Bush is calling for
a constitutional amendment to ban gay weddings. Sounds like someone didn't get
an invitation to Rosie's wedding." —David Letterman

ODD NEWS

The maker of
T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them"
says business is booming despite -- or maybe because of -- protests that led
some major U.S. retailers to stop selling them.

The federal panel
reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks has scheduled interviews with former President
Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore this month but is struggling to get
similar cooperation from President Bush and administration officials.

Greek scientists
said they have found a way to lower cancer cell resistance to medical treatment
in what could be a major step in treating a disease that kills more than six
million people every year.

"This is another squandered
opportunity for U.S. leadership on a crucial arms control and humanitarian
issue." -- Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on the Bush administration's
refusal to join 150 other nations that have signed an anti-land mine treaty.

President Bush
is making an unprecedented request to use up to $1 million budgeted for a
possible presidential transition to train top officials who would join his
administration if he should win a second term...